History of Farnsworth?

[gardenmaniac]

I am new to Tomatoville and have been spending a bit of time "catching up". I discovered it through Andrey. Thanks Andrey!!!!

I was wondering if anyone knows the history of the Farnsworth tomato. The SSE Yearbook doesn't help in that area and neither does the Sandhill catalog.

I will be growing it this year and want to add any information I can get for my file.

Thanks, and I look forward to getting to know everybody

Tiffanie the gardenmaniac

[carolyn137]

As you know Glenn still does list it in his catalog/website, and basic traits are given, but as for a history, well, there may be one and there may not be one as is true with maybe over 90% of all OP heirloom tomatoes.

I looked quickly in a few older SSE Yearbooks but didn't see it which means I may have to go pre-1986 when varieties were listed not by color as they are now, rather by state and within state alphabetically as to lister by their SSE code .

And that makes it very difficult to find anything, quite frankly.

So if no one else comes up with any info on history, I can take a look sometime, but you'd have to remind me to do so. And now is not the time.

[gardenmaniac]

Thank you, Carolyn, for taking the time to respond. I'll send a gentle reminder later if no one else responds. I appreciate all the work you do to preserve the historical context. I have only been a SSE member for four years so my yearbooks don't go back that far. I agree that there may be no story to find. But just in case...

I wonder where Glenn's seed came from.

Tiffanie

[carolyn137]

I wonder where Glenn's seed came from.

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No doubt an earlier Yearbook where it was offered since Glenn has been a member of SSE since its inception in 1975 when he was very young.

I'd even suggest e-mailing him but he has never had a great interest in the history of most OP's other than the commercially bred ones and he's so far behind on e-mails as it is, and this is their busiestr time of the year, and....and....and.